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Post by Adam on Dec 9, 2023 19:22:51 GMT
Looks terrific! Hope you have plenty of visitors lined up to check it out! Just some neighbors. It’s mostly for me, and of course Jesus. |
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Post by Adam on Dec 10, 2023 0:54:33 GMT
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Post by healey36 on Dec 10, 2023 13:29:16 GMT
The corrugated brick-paper arrived yesterday, and I bought an inexpensive length of garland at the garden center, but you know, I think I'm just going to leave the base as is. It looks okay to me with the cake-icing felt-snow effect, and being six inches off the floor, I don't have to worry about anyone putting their foot through it. Done... Here's a box of Christmas balls from the family hardware store which The Old Man closed in 1960:  A few years back, found these in the attic of my grandfather's garage when we cleaned it out prior to selling the house; these, along with a lot of other stock, left over when they shuttered the store. Never out of the box, still in the original papers, marked 75 cents and "Made in Poland". |
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Dec 10, 2023 17:09:46 GMT
The corrugated brick-paper arrived yesterday, and I bought an inexpensive length of garland at the garden center, but you know, I think I'm just going to leave the base as is. It looks okay to me with the cake-icing felt-snow effect, and being six inches off the floor, I don't have to worry about anyone putting their foot through it. Done... I didn't post anything, but FWIW I had the same reaction when you posted your "cake-icing" pic! Sounds like you found your way to my new motto: 
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Post by healey36 on Dec 10, 2023 17:12:26 GMT
I tend to be a "stream of consciousness" display builder...sometimes it works out, sometimes a disaster, but never fearful of cutting my losses, lol.
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Post by healey36 on Dec 12, 2023 13:34:09 GMT
Christmas at the White House, 2023, with a train on loan from the TCA:  Blue Room, front and center. |
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Post by Bill on Dec 14, 2023 13:57:13 GMT
Christmas at the White House, 2023, with a train on loan from the TCA: Blue Room, front and center. Wow! that's awesome. villaging in the White House I love this !!! 
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Post by healey36 on Dec 14, 2023 15:59:35 GMT
Christmas at the White House, 2023, with a train on loan from the TCA: Blue Room, front and center. Wow! that's awesome. villaging in the White House I love this !!! Yup, besides the train, the houses embedded in the tree are neat! Thumbs up to the designer of this one.
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Post by Country Joe on Dec 14, 2023 16:01:55 GMT
I’ve told these three Christmas stories before but we have a number of newer members who have never heard them so I will tell them here though in a condensed version.
Santa brought my first train, a Lionel work train pulled by a 2020 steam engine, for Christmas 1949. I was born about a week later in January 1950 so I don’t remember getting that train. Each Christmas Lionel trains were under the tree so I just grew up with them. Each Christmas Santa brought something for the trains as well as other toys.
Christmas 1954 was particularly memorable because Santa left a Lionel New York Central F3 AA set and a matching B unit under the tree that year. It had magne-traction, a horn and was a beauty in its gray lightning stripes. I’ve been a NYC fan ever since.
The third story needs a little more detail. We lived in the upstairs apartment of a relative’s house until November 1957 when my parents were able to buy our house. This next story was, as best as I remember, either Christmas 1958 or 1959. We would get the Montgomery Ward and Sears Christmas catalogs in the fall and I would spend hours looking at the toys and wondering what Santa would give me. I asked my parents what I was getting for Christmas and my dad said, “coal.” I wasn’t a bad kid so I was surprised. About a week later I asked again and again my dad said, “coal.” I didn’t think I would really get coal but I was somewhat nervous.
When the big day arrived I found that Santa had come and left a lot of presents under the tree. Dad took two of them from under the tree and said I should open them first, starting with the little one followed by the big one. The little one contained a package of Lionel coal and the big one had a 97 coal loader inside. I did get coal for Christmas but it was a good thing and maybe my most memorable Christmas.
That January, instead of putting the trains away, dad and I built an 8x8 Lionel layout in our basement. It was my first real layout and is another wonderful memory.
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Post by kstrains on Dec 15, 2023 1:38:48 GMT
Christmas tree's up...other than a corrugated brick-paper skirt (paper on order), I'm calling this done:  I have a new MTH Christmas trolley I bought up at Mainline a couple weeks back...hoping to get that on the track first (once I find it). Now, back to the outdoor lighting. Very nice tree and loop around the tree!
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Post by kstrains on Dec 15, 2023 1:40:28 GMT
Christmas at the White House, 2023, with a train on loan from the TCA: Blue Room, front and center. I believe that might be the first time I have seen a train around the tree inside the White House. Nicely done.
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Post by kstrains on Dec 15, 2023 1:47:13 GMT
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Post by Country Joe on Dec 15, 2023 1:59:54 GMT
This past week has been hard as I visited my mom in Florida, so I have posted anything for over a week. My mom is not doing well with Shingles. A lot of my Christmas Joy dissipated over this past week, but Hopefully will get back to posting this weekend. Here are a few photos of our home decorated outside. Ken, I hope your mom is feeling better. Shingles is miserable. Your house looks great! I really like the Peanuts characters.
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Post by kstrains on Dec 15, 2023 3:01:09 GMT
This past week has been hard as I visited my mom in Florida, so I have posted anything for over a week. My mom is not doing well with Shingles. A lot of my Christmas Joy dissipated over this past week, but Hopefully will get back to posting this weekend. Here are a few photos of our home decorated outside. Ken, I hope your mom is feeling better. Shingles is miserable. Your house looks great! I really like the Peanuts characters. Thanks, Joe. It was not easy to sit by my mom's bedside in the hospital as she was in pain. I might have said my last good bye to her, but I don't know. The peanuts cut outs were made by a local couple near us. In the past, I have not done much with decorating our yard with lights. This year a little different in owning a new home gave me the inspiration especially when finding the Peanuts Gang!
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Post by healey36 on Dec 15, 2023 13:43:33 GMT
Yes, hope your mom makes a quick recovery. I've not had shingles, but the wife has, and based on what she went through, it can be excruciating. There's a vaccine for it now, but that has some side-effects too. Anyway, hope your mom is back in form shortly and back to her residence.
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